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Learning & Development’s Role in Operational Efficiencies in 2022

HR Digest

According to Mckinsey & Company , “Leaders have an essential role to play in developing solutions to tackle these challenges.” With higher participation rates and fewer distractions, classroom-based training can actually cost much less to develop than interactive eLearning content. Operations Before Experiences.

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Working Mothers Are Important Contributors to the U.S. Labor Force

HR Digest

Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that the labor force participation of women in their prime, aged between 25 and 54, has increased to 77.8 Labor force participation rates are also clear on the fact that working mothers with younger children (aged below 5) were less likely to participate in the workforce earlier.

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Put the “and” Back in “Sales and Marketing”

Harvard Business Review

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

As Edgar Schein notes in this volume, leaders will need to effectively involve others and elicit participation “because tasks will be too complex and information too widely distributed for leaders to solve problems on their own.” Employees had to “bubble” their concerns through each level in the AT&T system.

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Eight Essential Questions for Every Corporate Innovator

Harvard Business Review

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Which customers can’t participate in a market because they lack skills, wealth, or convenient access to existing solutions?

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Social Media's Productivity Payoff

Harvard Business Review

billion consumers around the globe have an account on a social networking site and almost one in five online hours is spent on social networks), marketing departments have increasingly shifted their attention to social media. With consumers spending gobs of time in online communities ( more than 1.5 trillion annually. trillion annually.

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